| Denies......................44 | |
| conditions are prepared and fulfilled. If a person denies the possibility of any communication with any excarnated | 22 SALVATION |
| teachers represent authority for the child. This authority denies the child many a wish fulfillment. Therefore, authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| child feels dependent on a cruel world which denies it what it thinks it needs and could | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| according to your idea, and life, or God, denies it, God is to be feared all the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| soul, that only by having what the world denies me, taking it myself, can I become happy | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| its aspects -- must be faced before it denies itself. This was not an easy lecture, my | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for you to discover the compulsive attitude that denies present imperfection, the pride and lack of humility | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to the arrogance of the aggressive success-seeker who denies needs, underneath the submissiveness as much arrogance and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| conscious self. As you know, the idealized self-image denies all limitations. It pretends possessing all that the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| avoid the consequences of one's actions; such desire denies self-responsibility, liberation, and true mastery over one's fate | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Many an individual is half-willing, but this half-willingness denies love rather than affirms it. It makes all | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is even more difficult when a person busily denies those aspects in life that leave something to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is still this other side that negates and denies the former direction, that fears and resists it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| are still pulled toward contact. But your counter-pull denies the primary force, so the negation combines with | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| yours -- good or bad -- your mentality denies self-responsibility for the unwelcome experience, and your emotions | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| letting go of the ego, who fears and denies pleasure because of this fear, must court death | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| with yourself. What one hand produces the other denies and fights, not realizing what is happening. You | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| represents the negating principle. It pulls back, retracts, denies, shrinks into itself. There is a general conviction | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| must have it, I will not give up, denies the ever-unfolding life-possibilities. It insists on one specific | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| negative creations, in the struggle within itself that denies its own negativity and so does not know | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is an abdication of your universal destiny. It denies pleasure, wasting the most valuable spiritual power you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| recalcitrant aspect of the egotistical, destructive self that denies happiness, fulfillment, and beauty for any reason. So | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| forces, to let go of the cramp that denies truth and change, therefore self-expression and light. Open | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| will make this ugliness overwhelming. So fear also denies the justified faith in the benign order of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it is at the moment, if it either denies or exaggerates the implications -- again out of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| large part in all of you that still denies good experience, while you are entirely unaware of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of blame from a person who still strongly denies self- responsibility and therefore aggrandizes his or her | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| life/death cycle in which everyone is caught who denies feeling experience. When you go on denying awareness | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the self that often writhes in pain but denies the experience of the residual pain of long | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| need for an adult. When the growing person denies the pain of an unfulfilled real need, this | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| ego's expansion, which would effect self-transcendence. The ego denies the joyousness of true being by making something | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is fully savored. Guilt crushes the self and denies its intrinsic divinity. The current trend, as a | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| more loving than an apparently loving act that denies the hate. Think of this, my friends. Take | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| that there is a part of you which denies pain and frustration; a place where you are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that leaves room for many possibilities and never denies life. If you so ask, this attitude will | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and longs for the divine. But the countermovement denies all that. It wants to remain in darkness | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the organic, real inner change that the personality denies. Because you fear real and deep change, and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| -- you must be speaking a word that denies this possibility for you. If you do not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| be absurd to claim that an individual who denies divine reality, within or without, is equal to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| identification of Jesus Christ with rigid morality that denies feelings, sexuality, autonomy and the strong energy that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| duality, only approached from the other end? Whoever denies the undesirable is not much different from one | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| undesirable is not much different from one who denies the desirable and does not permit himself to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| this fine balance. For a dependent ego that denies self-responsibility it is quite impossible to surrender. In | 254 SURRENDER |
| recognize your hard inner nucleus that withholds and denies. This involuntary part needs to be approached somewhat | 254 SURRENDER |
| Denomination................3 | |
| from all spheres who belong to this particular denomination. They are ranged according to the development and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not only those who belong to a religious denomination. There are subtler ways in which this can | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a statement. It may be that one religious denomination has more truthful teachings, but another that has | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Denominations...............3 | |
| with the highest spheres. There, the different religious denominations also have their own organization, but in a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Not only is it found in well-known religious denominations, it can also be found in individuals who | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspect is very much neglected by all religious denominations and societies. They still deal with the mere | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Denominator.................42 | |
| of these three basic faults. Find the common denominator. This is not easy if you are to | 36 PRAYER |
| people at odds. Try to find the common denominator. For there is a common denominator in all | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the common denominator. For there is a common denominator in all of you. Build on it and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| variations of each incident than to the common denominator underlying them. Most psychologists have verified this process | 38 IMAGES |
| insignificant ones, start to look for the common denominator. You will find one common denominator in most | 38 IMAGES |
| the common denominator. You will find one common denominator in most instances, and sometimes even more than | 38 IMAGES |
| image at least in some way. The common denominator may not be easy to find. Only after | 38 IMAGES |
| after a long and arduous search, the common denominator. It is pride. Your self-will says: I do | 38 IMAGES |
| then go on to search for the common denominator. Do not turn away from anything hastily, even | 38 IMAGES |
| often turn out to have a single common denominator. When you have found that, you have made | 38 IMAGES |
| a clue to the image. But the common denominator by itself is not yet the key to | 38 IMAGES |
| in black and white. First, find a common denominator in all these conflicts. You will not yet | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| circles, further search will uncover a single common denominator. Once you have made this list, you will | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and character. All inferiority complexes have the common denominator of pride and self-will. Self-will: because you crave | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you finally to the recognition of their common denominator: The constructive attitude is: In my ignorance I | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| human nature can be reduced to this common denominator. As long as this fact is not felt | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| let me try to find, briefly, a common denominator. One inevitable factor in bondage is fear. As | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desires, you will always find the same common denominator: the desire for perfection in order to attain | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| inner conflicts. When they can find one common denominator for all their various symptoms and problems -- | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| step by step. This will be the common denominator that will unite all sciences, all religions, as | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the truth that there is one unifying common denominator among all branches of knowledge. Such an emphasis | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that all these things have the same common denominator. But to find this will take more time | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| surely see that all three share the common denominator of the childish either/or attitude. It is impossible | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Because, my friend, both have the same common denominator, the same root. They are both an expression | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| distortion produces what is called sin. The common denominator of any sin is immaturity of the soul | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| both sloth and gluttony have the same common denominator: an unawareness of the original need. Both contain | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| so because they all have the same common denominator. Since the human personality is in conflict and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the problem of obligations -- have a common denominator. And now, your questions. QUESTION: You mean to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| put them together, and search for a common denominator, you must inevitably find that any wrong conclusion | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| times, and I always point out the common denominator which brings together two apparent contradictions and thereby | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| approaches not mutually exclusive? Where is the common denominator that unifies them? The key is the element | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| duality, can be reduced to the simple common denominator of this basic split movement. When you see | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the fear of closeness as the simple common denominator. Your destructiveness and your insistence on holding on | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| finally be brought down to the simple common denominator of fearing to give of yourself and of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of this a clear pattern or a common denominator will arise. This may be comparatively easy for | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| will yield. If you cannot see the common denominator and therefore the problem which you are still | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| discuss some aspects of these fears, their common denominator, which will indicate to you how to correct | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| experience pain as a feeling? Is the common denominator that the self experiences both as feelings, when | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| forms and variations, yet there is one common denominator -- you fear the destructive and demonic aspects | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| again I should like to find the common denominator of where most of you are at this | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that grips all humankind. This is the common denominator that unites all human beings on the deepest | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| are certainly among the hardest layers. The common denominator of these three factors is the resistance to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |